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Haskell Weekly News
http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/HWN
Issue 38 - June 25, 2006
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Welcome to issue 38 of HWN, a weekly newsletter covering developments
in the Haskell community. Each week, new editions are posted to [1]the
Haskell mailing list as well as to [2]the Haskell Sequence and
[3]Planet Haskell. [4]RSS is also available, and headlines appear on
[5]haskell.org.
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Announcements
* The GHC Hackathon . Simon Peyton-Jones [6]announced that GHC HQ
are going to run a hackathon, in Portland, just before ICFP this
September (14-15th). It'll be held at Galois's offices, in
Beaverton. Thanks go to [7]Galois for hosting the meeting. [8]Here
are the details. If you are interested in finding out a bit about
how GHC works inside, then you should find the hackathon fun. It
will be informal and interactive. If you think you might come,
please take a look at the above page, and register.
6. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general/13838
7. http://galois.com/
8. http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Hackathon
* Bytecode API library . Robert Dockins [9]announced a release of an
alpha version of a library for reading and writing the YHC
bytecode file format. It reads and writes the entire bytecode set,
version 1.9 (the one used by recent YHC builds). [10]Check it out.
9. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.yhc/134
10. http://www.eecs.tufts.edu/~rdocki01/yhc-bytecode.html
Haskell'
This section covers the [11]Haskell' standardisation process.
* [12]Regarding Class Aliases
11. http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/haskell-prime
12. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.prime/1558/focus=1558
Discussion
* Extensible records using associated types . Barney Hilken
[13]suggested an interesting encoding of polymorphic extensible
records using associated types.
13. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general/13828/focus=13828
* Graphing community activity . Don Stewart [14]posted started
graphing the commit activity of [15]various Haskell community
projects over time.
14. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general/13830
15. http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~dons/images/commits/community/
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